Regional museums break ranks with UK government on return of Benin bronzes

Aberdeen says it will repatriate a bust while Cambridge museum has expectation' its collection could be returned

Regional UK museums could lead a wave of repatriations of disputed Benin bronzes - most of them looted by British forces in 1897 - in defiance of the British government's stance that institutions should retain and explain" contested artefacts.

On Thursday, the University of Aberdeen confirmed it would repatriate a bust of an Oba, or king of Benin, which it has had since the 1950s, within weeks", a landmark move for a British institution.